Analyst
UK

The median Analyst salary in the UK is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Analyst 9,797 11,815 16,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 11.77% 10.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.45% 12.87% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6,607 7,515 11,419
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,250 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +3.45%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analyst.

Salary trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 8,904 £45,000 -5.26% 1,962
UK excluding London +1 6,455 £40,000 - 1,128
Work from Home +2 3,698 £45,249 -4.74% 869
London +4 3,028 £60,000 +7.62% 884
North of England -2 1,661 £39,003 -3.44% 300
South East 0 1,566 £40,000 -4.19% 288
Midlands -1 1,229 £37,500 -6.25% 215
North West +3 932 £40,000 -5.33% 160
West Midlands +1 821 £37,500 -6.25% 131
South West +1 708 £42,500 +10.39% 116
East of England +8 651 £38,500 -2.53% 129
Yorkshire -7 549 £37,500 -6.25% 112
Scotland -35 413 £42,842 +4.88% 69
East Midlands -1 401 £36,500 -4.58% 84
North East +3 180 £35,000 -12.50% 29
Wales -8 174 £36,476 +4.22% 29
Northern Ireland +31 37 £50,000 +33.33% 13
Isle of Man -1 22 £46,500 +3.33%
Channel Islands -2 2 £67,500 +92.86% 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 3,429 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2,944 (30.05%) Finance
3 2,818 (28.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2,521 (25.73%) Microsoft
5 2,107 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
6 2,017 (20.59%) SQL
7 1,817 (18.55%) Degree
8 1,702 (17.37%) Agile
9 1,551 (15.83%) Microsoft Excel
10 1,249 (12.75%) Decision-Making
11 1,197 (12.22%) Windows
12 1,081 (11.03%) Azure
13 1,079 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
14 1,050 (10.72%) Customer Service
15 1,040 (10.62%) Microsoft Office
16 1,018 (10.39%) Power Platform
17 1,016 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
18 1,001 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
19 995 (10.16%) Analytics
20 958 (9.78%) Active Directory
21 949 (9.69%) Power BI
22 911 (9.30%) ITIL
23 830 (8.47%) Business Analysis
24 829 (8.46%) Data Analysis
25 816 (8.33%) Mentoring
26 800 (8.17%) Retail
27 761 (7.77%) Python
28 708 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
29 696 (7.10%) Influencing Skills
30 693 (7.07%) Cybersecurity

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 333 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 314 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 142 (1.45%) Confluence
4 95 (0.97%) SAS
5 70 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 44 (0.45%) Oracle Service Bus
7 36 (0.37%) CMS
8 25 (0.26%) Apache
8 25 (0.26%) IIS
9 23 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 16 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 14 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 13 (0.13%) Skype for Business
13 9 (0.092%) WordPress
14 8 (0.082%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.082%) Moodle
14 8 (0.082%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2013
16 6 (0.061%) Exchange Server 2010
17 5 (0.051%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,551 (15.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1,040 (10.62%) Microsoft Office
3 235 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 179 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 23 (0.23%) SPSS
8 14 (0.14%) Trello
9 6 (0.061%) LightWave 3D
9 6 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
10 4 (0.041%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.031%) Stata
12 2 (0.020%) EViews
12 2 (0.020%) LaTeX
13 1 (0.010%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 101 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 49 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 46 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 28 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 26 (0.27%) Elite 3E
6 26 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 24 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
8 22 (0.22%) Endur
9 20 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 19 (0.19%) thinkFolio
11 18 (0.18%) iTrent
11 18 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
11 18 (0.18%) PlanetPress Connect
12 16 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
12 16 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
13 14 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
13 14 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
13 14 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
14 12 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,081 (11.03%) Azure
2 1,079 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
3 1,018 (10.39%) Power Platform
4 431 (4.40%) AWS
5 219 (2.24%) SaaS
6 185 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 183 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 128 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
9 81 (0.83%) GCP
10 68 (0.69%) Google Analytics
11 65 (0.66%) PowerApps
12 61 (0.62%) Power Automate
13 47 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
13 47 (0.48%) OneDrive
14 43 (0.44%) Mimecast
14 43 (0.44%) WhatsApp
15 41 (0.42%) PaaS
16 38 (0.39%) Snowflake
17 27 (0.28%) IaaS
18 26 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 508 (5.19%) Broadband
2 429 (4.38%) Firewall
3 269 (2.75%) DNS
4 265 (2.70%) LAN
5 249 (2.54%) WAN
6 183 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 159 (1.62%) VPN
8 153 (1.56%) DHCP
9 150 (1.53%) Internet
10 104 (1.06%) VoIP
11 101 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 100 (1.02%) Wireless
13 90 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
14 81 (0.83%) Network Security
15 74 (0.76%) WLAN
16 63 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
17 61 (0.62%) MPLS
18 50 (0.51%) VLAN
19 49 (0.50%) BGP
19 49 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 949 (9.69%) Power BI
2 495 (5.05%) Tableau
3 386 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 193 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
5 159 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 92 (0.94%) BigQuery
7 91 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 90 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 76 (0.78%) Power Query
10 73 (0.75%) Oracle Database
11 60 (0.61%) Data Mining
12 46 (0.47%) QlikView
13 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 10g
13 44 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
13 44 (0.45%) VLDB
14 43 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
15 42 (0.43%) Looker
16 41 (0.42%) MySQL
17 40 (0.41%) Big Data
18 32 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 367 (3.75%) JIRA
2 144 (1.47%) Git
3 52 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 44 (0.45%) Selenium
5 35 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 24 (0.24%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.20%) Postman
8 15 (0.15%) JMeter
8 15 (0.15%) TestRail
9 11 (0.11%) GitLab
10 10 (0.10%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.10%) Metasploit
10 10 (0.10%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.10%) Toad
11 9 (0.092%) Jenkins
11 9 (0.092%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (0.071%) NUnit
12 7 (0.071%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.071%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 3,429 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2,944 (30.05%) Finance
3 2,818 (28.76%) Analytical Skills
4 800 (8.17%) Retail
5 696 (7.10%) Influencing Skills
6 668 (6.82%) Legal
7 633 (6.46%) Law
8 632 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 625 (6.38%) Banking
10 391 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
11 357 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
12 323 (3.30%) Marketing
13 291 (2.97%) Public Sector
14 270 (2.76%) Manufacturing
15 231 (2.36%) Investment Banking
16 186 (1.90%) Front Office
17 111 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
18 108 (1.10%) Police
19 100 (1.02%) Back Office
19 100 (1.02%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (1.12%) .NET
2 67 (0.68%) JSON
3 66 (0.67%) REST
4 65 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 62 (0.63%) XML
6 50 (0.51%) HTML
7 47 (0.48%) EDI
8 39 (0.40%) Web Services
9 34 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
10 29 (0.30%) CSS
11 27 (0.28%) Spring
12 26 (0.27%) J2EE
12 26 (0.27%) Java EE
13 22 (0.22%) OLE
14 18 (0.18%) .NET Framework
15 16 (0.16%) Middleware
15 16 (0.16%) SOAP
16 15 (0.15%) Pandas
16 15 (0.15%) SAML
17 14 (0.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 426 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 391 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
3 271 (2.77%) Product Ownership
4 214 (2.18%) Onboarding
5 127 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 123 (1.26%) Hedge funds
7 121 (1.24%) Fixed Income
8 115 (1.17%) Derivative
9 106 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 105 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
11 102 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 99 (1.01%) Driving Licence
13 89 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
14 86 (0.88%) Life Science
15 71 (0.72%) Equities
16 70 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
17 69 (0.70%) Data Centre
18 68 (0.69%) Reinsurance
19 62 (0.63%) Credit Risk
19 62 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,197 (12.22%) Windows
2 426 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 376 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 259 (2.64%) Linux
5 166 (1.69%) Unix
6 100 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 91 (0.93%) Android
8 67 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 62 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 62 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 58 (0.59%) Solaris
11 50 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 40 (0.41%) Windows 7
13 30 (0.31%) Mac OS X
14 18 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (0.17%) Windows 8
16 13 (0.13%) VMS
17 12 (0.12%) Windows Vista
18 11 (0.11%) CentOS
18 11 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,107 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
2 1,702 (17.37%) Agile
3 1,249 (12.75%) Decision-Making
4 1,050 (10.72%) Customer Service
5 1,016 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
6 1,001 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
7 995 (10.16%) Analytics
8 911 (9.30%) ITIL
9 830 (8.47%) Business Analysis
10 829 (8.46%) Data Analysis
11 816 (8.33%) Mentoring
12 708 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 693 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
14 682 (6.96%) Visualisation
15 638 (6.51%) Business Case
16 572 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
17 566 (5.78%) Mathematics
18 558 (5.70%) Project Management
19 548 (5.59%) Change Management
20 543 (5.54%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2,017 (20.59%) SQL
2 761 (7.77%) Python
3 180 (1.84%) R
4 163 (1.66%) T-SQL
5 160 (1.63%) C#
6 158 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 97 (0.99%) VBA
8 87 (0.89%) Java
9 81 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 73 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 66 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 36 (0.37%) Bash
13 35 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 26 (0.27%) C++
14 26 (0.27%) RPG
15 20 (0.20%) Perl
16 19 (0.19%) VB
17 14 (0.14%) MATLAB
18 13 (0.13%) PHP
18 13 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,817 (18.55%) Degree
2 537 (5.48%) CIMA
3 536 (5.47%) Security Cleared
4 533 (5.44%) ACCA
5 344 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 207 (2.11%) CISSP
7 195 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 128 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 125 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 120 (1.22%) DV Cleared
11 117 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 107 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 97 (0.99%) CISM
14 92 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
15 83 (0.85%) CCNA
16 77 (0.79%) CISA
17 61 (0.62%) CCNP
18 56 (0.57%) A+ Certification
19 52 (0.53%) ISTQB
20 46 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 369 (3.77%) SLA
2 283 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 264 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 247 (2.52%) QA
5 228 (2.33%) GDPR
6 171 (1.75%) NIST
7 105 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 98 (1.00%) PMO
9 82 (0.84%) GRC
10 59 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 50 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 38 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 37 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 37 (0.38%) NCSC
14 35 (0.36%) IFRS
15 34 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 31 (0.32%) Accessibility
17 30 (0.31%) COBIT
18 23 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 18 (0.18%) CRD IV
System Software
1 958 (9.78%) Active Directory
2 139 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
5 37 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (0.28%) XenApp
7 26 (0.27%) vSphere
7 26 (0.27%) XenDesktop
8 23 (0.23%) Firmware
9 20 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.061%) Docker
12 6 (0.061%) Terminal Services
13 4 (0.041%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.041%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.010%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.010%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 191 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 153 (1.56%) SCCM
3 55 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (0.47%) Data Guard
5 44 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 38 (0.39%) CASB
7 34 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 34 (0.35%) WSUS
8 31 (0.32%) Terraform
9 26 (0.27%) OpenSSO
10 20 (0.20%) QRadar
11 15 (0.15%) EnCase
12 13 (0.13%) CSIRT
13 11 (0.11%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.10%) Grafana
14 10 (0.10%) Nmap
15 9 (0.092%) Failover Clustering
15 9 (0.092%) Nessus
15 9 (0.092%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.082%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2,521 (25.73%) Microsoft
2 330 (3.37%) Oracle
3 272 (2.78%) SAP
4 245 (2.50%) VMware
5 185 (1.89%) Cisco
6 167 (1.70%) Google
7 164 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 161 (1.64%) Databricks
8 161 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 146 (1.49%) Citrix
10 98 (1.00%) Apple
11 94 (0.96%) Alteryx
12 87 (0.89%) Remedy
13 86 (0.88%) Bloomberg
14 74 (0.76%) Splunk
15 73 (0.75%) Sun
16 70 (0.71%) IBM
17 69 (0.70%) Adobe
18 60 (0.61%) Dell
19 58 (0.59%) Sage